August 13, 2019 9:00 a.m.
Board Members Present: Jessie LeMar, Lindsey Carpino, Joe Mitzenmacher, Julie Swanson, Jessie Bowman, Megan Butman, and Philip Johnson
Board Members Absent: None
Significant Actions: None
Guests: None
Treasurer’s Report (Section IV):
The CALL Bylaws Committee had a successful year in 2018/2019, shepherding changes to the CALL bylaws to align them more closely with the bylaws of the parent AALL. The Committee was chaired by Eric Parker, and had Margaret Schilt, Therese Clark Arado, and Matt Timko as members. Continue reading CALL Bylaws Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
Co-Chairs: Patricia Scott & Jamie Sommer
Members: Anne Danberg, Claire Toomey Durkin, Valerie Kropf, Nan Norton, Jamie Stewart
Board Liaison: Scott Vanderlin
Our Committee met virtually, via email, throughout the year to suggest, investigate, and choose Chicago-based organizations to highlight and collect donations for at our business meetings. Different Committee members (noted below) took lead responsibility for organizing each meeting’s collections. The following items and money were collected for the listed organizations at the CALL business meetings: Continue reading CALL Community Service Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
The 2018-2019 Government Relations Committee was Carolyn Hersch and Sarah Sherman (co-chairs) and Sally Holterhoff the Board Liaison was Joe Mitzenmacher. Continue reading CALL Government Relations Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
Committee members were Todd Hillmer (co-chair), Tami Carson (co-chair 2018), Carrie Port (co-chair 2019), Sheri Lewis and Keely Ward. Jessie LeMar was the board liaison.
The Meetings committee planned four business meetings for the 2018-19 year. Dates, locations, number of registrants for each business meeting are shown in the table below. Continue reading CALL Meetings Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
We would like to thank the committee members including Lisa Winkler, Bob Winger, Virginia Brown, Simone Srinivan, Emily Byrne, Susan Seibert, Debbie Ginsberg, for their commitment and hard work helping us put together good education programs this year.
The Continuing Education Committee had a very successful year. We sponsored or co-sponsored six successful presentations: Continue reading CALL Continuing Education Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
The committee members who assisted in the 2018-2019 review of minutes and policy log changes were: Judy Gaskell, Betty Roeske, Susan Siebers, and Robert Winger. Annie Mentkowski assisted tremendously through her work as CALL Secretary while compiling the minutes and communicating changes to the Board. Continue reading CALL Corporate Memory Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
During the 2018-2019 year the Membership Committee published updates to the CALL Membership Directory in September 2018, November 2018, and December 2018.
Over this year the Membership Committee also assisted with updating the CALL Listserv email list and updated member information in Wild Apricot.
As per the 2019 Bylaws Amendment, the Committee removed the Associate member category from Wild Apricot prior to the start of the 2019-20 membership renewal period.
Committee members: Clare Willis (chair), Sarah Andeen, Shari Duff, Debbie Ginsberg, Philip Johnson, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Patricia Scott, and Beth Schubert.
The Committee had a very successful year. We met once in person at the beginning of the year to discuss how we would monitor opportunities for continuing education opportunities and how we would publicize them to members. This grew out of last year’s effort to let CALL members know about more continuing education opportunities beyond AALL. Continue reading CALL Grants and Awards Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
This year the Mentorship & Leadership Development Committee focused on cultivating mentorship through informal brown-bag gatherings, providing support for our members by reviewing program and article submissions (thank you Heidi and Debbie), and welcoming new members at CALL Business Meetings (thank you Mandy and Sally).
We encouraged new members to apply for grants and attend AALL’s CONELL, with two new members attending with grants. We encourage everyone to visit the MLDC calendar to find upcoming conferences and publishing opportunities, which is designed give members grant ideas (thank you Lyo and Sarah for all of your hard work on this).
Learn more about this year’s informal brown-bag gatherings below!
Continue reading CALL Mentorship & Leadership Development Committee (MLDC) 2018-2019 Report